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Camp Life And Sport In South Africa; Experiences Of Kaffir Warfare With The Cape Mounted Rifles

Camp Life And Sport In South Africa; Experiences Of Kaffir Warfare With The Cape Mounted Rifles

J. Lucas, Thomas

Paperback

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ISBN10: 9354500463
ISBN13: 9789354500466
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the Cape frontier, peace was never promised. Thomas J. Lucas rides into a contested landscape where patrols, bivouacs, and uneasy truces shaped daily life. Mud, powder, and hard riding. Camp Life And Sport In South Africa is a complete colonial travel memoir and a brisk military campaign narrative drawn from service with the Cape Mounted Rifles. Lucas records the textures of 19th century South Africa: marches across rough country, the pressures of frontier duty, and the diversions of hunting and sport Africa when the day allows. The result is classic adventure nonfiction with a grounded eye for place and procedure, offering readers a vivid sense of how soldiers moved, watched, negotiated, and fought in a world of shifting boundaries. He balances observation with momentum, moving from camp routine to the immediacies of skirmish and supply lines. For anyone drawn to Cape colony history, it is a firsthand window on cape frontier warfare, the British Empire frontier wars, and Cape Mounted Rifles history, including conflicts often grouped as the Xhosa frontier wars. It remains valuable for colonial history research, not only for what it recounts, but for how it reveals attitudes, assumptions, and the practical realities of campaigning at the edge of empire. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, and a natural choice for those seeking an unabridged classic reprint to keep.

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